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<h1><font color="#669900" face="Arial">Editing your mindmaps</font></h1>
<p><font face="Arial">You have many options as you edit your mindmaps.</font></p>
<h4><font color="#669900" face="Arial">Selecting a node </font></h4>
<p><font face="Arial">Select a node by either pointing at it with the mouse or 
clicking on it, as governed by your user preferences (Edit / Preferences).</font></p>
<h4><font color="#669900" face="Arial">Editing a node</font></h4>
<p><font face="Arial">If you right-click on a node, you'll see a context menu 
with several choices.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"><img border="0" src="editho1.gif" width="165" height="287"></font></p>
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  <li><font face="Arial"><b>Edit:</b> Change the text of a node</font></li>
  <li><font face="Arial"><b>Edit a long node: </b>Open a window to edit text.&nbsp;
  </font></li>
  <li><font face="Arial"><b>New Child Node: </b>Create a new linked node, one 
  level deeper. [Mac users may want to create an alternative to the Insert key.&nbsp; 
  See <a href="customuser.htm#newnode">user.properties</a> page.)</font></li>
  <li><font face="Arial"><b>Cut: </b>Cut the selected node and all of its 
  descendants to the clipboard. Note that because there is no Undo function as 
  of this writing, Cut may be used to delete text, which can then be recovered 
  with Paste. See below.</font></li>
  <li><font face="Arial"><b>Copy:</b> Copy the selected node and all of its 
  descendants to the clipboard.</font></li>
  <li><font face="Arial"><b>Copy Single:</b> Copy <i>only</i> the selected node 
  to the clipboard.</font></li>
  <li><font face="Arial"><b>Paste: </b>Insert the contents of the clipboard as a 
  child of (below) the currently selected node.</font></li>
  <li><font face="Arial"><b>Node:</b> Offers a variety of options for formatting 
  and positioning nodes. See <a href="editnode.htm">Editing nodes</a> for 
  details.</font></li>
  <li><font face="Arial"><b>Branch:</b> Offers options for importing and 
  exporting branches.</font></li>
  <li><font face="Arial"><b>Edge:</b> Offers options for the style, color and 
  width of edges (the lines connecting nodes)</font></li>
  <li><font face="Arial"><b>Physical style:</b> Presents a variety of choices 
  for preset styles that can combine font, size, color, etc. Styles are defined 
  in the file called patterns.xml. See <a href="customize.htm">Customizing 
  FreeMind</a> for details.</font></li>
  <li><font face="Arial"><b>Icons:</b> Offers a choice of decorative icons. When 
  you choose an icon, it is inserted at the start of the node, but after any 
  icons that are already there. You can also insert an icon from the icon 
  toolbar at the left hand side of the window. (You can remove this toolbar by 
  right-clicking on the background of FreeMind.)</font></li>
</ul>
<h4><font color="#669900" face="Arial">Selecting multiple nodes </font></h4>
<ul>
  <li><font face="Arial">To select multiple nodes hold control or shift while 
  clicking. </font></li>
  <li><font face="Arial">Control lets you add single nodes to a set of already 
  selected nodes. </font></li>
  <li><font face="Arial">Shift lets you select continuous ranges of nodes or 
  whole subtrees of nodes. </font></li>
</ul>
<h4><font face="Arial" color="#669900">Reordering nodes</font></h4>
<p><font face="Arial">Move nodes up and down within a group of siblings (same 
level) by using Ctrl+Up Arrow or Ctrl+Down Arrow.</font></p>
<h4><font face="Arial" color="#669900">Editing long nodes</font></h4>
<p><font face="Arial">When you've opened the window to edit a long node 
(Alt-Enter), removing the checkmark from &quot;Enter confirms&quot; allows you to key in 
line breaks with the Enter key; otherwise, use Ctrl-Enter. You can also split a 
long node into two nodes at the point of the cursor, by using the &quot;Split&quot; 
button.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial">Tip: To create a multiline node, insert a new 
node and press Alt-Enter. </font></p>
<h4><font color="#669900" face="Arial">Is there no undo in FreeMind? </font>
</h4>
<p><font face="Arial">There is no undo so far (0.7.1). Help against data loss 
are offered by:</font></p>
<ul>
  <li><font face="Arial">The autosave feature</font></li>
  <li><font face="Arial">You can install a clipboard manager, which will make 
  all elements cut from FreeMind available in its history. A freeware example of 
  a clipboard manager for Microsoft Windows is
  <a target="_blank" href="http://www.yankee-clipper.net/">Yankee Clipper</a>.</font></li>
</ul>
<h4><font color="#669900" face="Arial">Autosave</font></h4>
<p><font face="Arial">By default, a backup copy of your map is saved to the home 
directory every minute. To disable this function, or change the time interval or 
the save directory, edit the user.properties file in the home directory.</font></p>
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